Bobbin and spindle connector.



J. HONEY & J. O. RAE. BOBBIN AND SPINDLE CONNECTOR.

PPLIOATION FILED NOV. 29, 1910.

Patented Oct. 31, 1911.

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JOHN RONEY AND JOHN C. RAE, OF WOONSOOKE'I, RHODE ISLAND.

BOBBIN AND SPINDLE CONNECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1911.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN RONEY and J OHN O. RAE, citizens of the United States, residing at Woonsocket, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bobbin and Spindle Connectors, of which the following is a specification.

Our present invention pertains to bobbin and spindle connectors.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, compact and efficient device designed more particularly for holding cotton bobbins and effecting connection of the same to aspindle, and one that is, by reason of the construction and relative arrangement of its elements, strong and durable and therefore not liable to become accidentally deranged during use.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying illustration of one specific embodiment thereof, while its scope will be more particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings which form part hereof: Figure l is a view showing the connector in side elevation as properly mounted on a spindle and holding a bobbin. Fig. 2 is a plan of the connector per se. Fig. 3 is an enlarged diametrical section of the same. Fig. 4 comprises disconnected perspective views of some of the elements comprised in the connector.

Referring by letter to said drawings: A is a spindle having the usual whirl a.

B is a bobbin, and C is our novel connector or bobbin holder as a whole. The said bobbin and spindle connector or holder is made up of a collar 6, preferably of brass, adapted to fit the spindle A and having a shoulder 0, a cup-shaped metallic body d having a bottom wall in which is an aperture to receive the collar and also having a side wall, apertured metallic plates 6 and f designed to be mounted on the collar 6 and superposed on the bottom wall of the cupshaped body (Z and each having two upstanding resilient jaws g, and an apertured retaining plate It designed to be mounted on the collar 1) and superposed on the uppermost of the jaw-carrying plates.

In assembling the parts of the connector or bobbin holder, said parts are placed in the order hereinbefore set forth on the collar b above the shoulder 0 thereof; the plates 6 and f being so arranged that the jaws g of the one are located midway or approximately midway between the jaws of the other, Fig. 2. Then the upper end of the collar 5 is upset or riveted on the retaining plate It, as indicated by i in Figs. 2 and 3, whereupon, as will be readily understood, the plates 6 and f will be tightly clamped together and between the retaining plate It and the bottom wall of the body cl. With this done the plates 6 and f brace and reinforce each other, and the two plates e and f are held together and braced by the body d and the retaining plate h, and the result is a bobbin connector or holder that is at once simple, compact and strong. It will also be observed by comparison of Figs. 2, 3 and l that the jaws g on the plates 6 and f reach upward through notches j in the retaining plate h, and that the'lower portions of the jaws rest between the retaining plate It and the side wall of the cuplike body (Z so as to enable the said side wall to limit outward movement of the jaws and to brace the same when a bobbin is placed between the jaws in the manner shown in Fig. 1.

The upper end portions 70 of the jaws g are preferably, though not necessarily, shaped in the manner illustrated in order to facilitate the seating of a bobbin between the jaws and to enable the latter to securely hold the bobbin.

Having described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

A bobbin and spindle connector comprising a cup-shaped body having a fiat bottom wall provided with an aperture in its center, fiat plates arranged directly one on the other and on the bottom wall of the body and having central apertures and also having two upstanding resilient jaws, respectively; the jaws of one plate being arranged between the jaws of the other, and all of the jaws being arranged within the side wall of the body and adjacent said side wall, a retaining plate arranged in the body and superposed on the uppermost of the jawcarrying plates and having its edge arranged against the inner side of the upstanding wall of the body and also having notches in said edge receiving the said upstanding jaws, and a collar having a shoulder on which the bottom wall of the body rests, and a reduced portion resting in the apertures of the said bottom, the jaW- set our hands in presence of two subscribing carrying plates and retaining plate and also Witnesses. having its upper end upset on the retaining plate whereby the same is enabled to clamp 5 the jaw-carrying plates against the bottom Wall of the loocly substantially as and for WVitnesses: the purpose set forth. EDGAR L. SPAULDING,

In testimony whereof We have hereunto EVELYN W. SPAULDING.

JOHN RONEY. JOHN C. RAE.

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